Drinking-fount for poultry.



PATENTED NOV. 12, 1907.

"P. M; WIGKSTRUM.

- DRINKING FOUNT FOR (POULTRYK APPLICATION FILED JAN. 28, 1907.

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A 7 1 OR/VE VS PETER M. WIOKSTRUM, OF LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.

DRINKING-FOUNT FOR POULTRY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 12,1907.

Application filed January 26, 1907. Serial No. 3541325.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I PETER M. WIons'ruUM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lincoln, in the county of Lancaster and State of Nebraska, have invented a i new and useful Drinking-Fount for Poultry. of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a drinking fount for poultry and large or small stock, which is of that type provided with a source of heat to prevent the water from freezing during cold Weather and render the water available at all times.

The invention has for one of its objects to improve and simplify the construction and operation of devices of this character, so as to be comparatively easy and inexpensive to manufacture, reliable and etlicient in use, and readily filled with water and kept clean.

A. further object of the invention is to provide a drinking fount in which the trough or cup is located within the casing or body of the device so as to be adjacent the source of heat and thus preventformation of ice in the trough during extremely cold weather.

Another object is the provision of a fount having a removable lamp supporting bottom fitted into and clasped to the body of the device so that the latter is readily portable.

A further object is the employment of an improved draft system for drinking founts of that type containing a lamp or source of heat.

With these objects in View, and others, as will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the invention comprises the various novel features of construction and arrangement of parts, which will be more fully described hereinafter, and set forth with particularity in the claims appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates one of the embodiments of the invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a self contained drinking fount. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section thereof. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 33 of Fig. 2, the lamp being removed.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are indi cated throughout by similar characters of reference.

Referring to the drawing, 1. designates the body of the fount, which is a pail-like structure made preferably of tin or other sheet metal, with its upper end closed and lower end opened. In the open end of the body or casing 1 is fitted a removable bottom 2 that forms a holder for the lamp, or source of heat, designated generally by 3, the bowl or reservoir 4 of the lamp resting on the bottom 2 in a seat formed by the ring 5 rising from the bottom' The bottom is formed with a rim 6 that engages the bead 7 at the lower end of the body 1, so as to prevent the bottom from being inserted too far. To hold the bottom in place, a pair of diametrically arranged spring clasps 8 are secured to the bottom to engage over the bead 7, thus removably holding the bottom in place.

The body l is divided by an annular horizontally extending partition 9 into a water compartment 10 and heater containing compartment .1 l. The partition 9 supports a drum 12 arranged com-entrically in the body l with its upper end closed by a head '13 and its lower end extending through the opening [4 of the partition 9. The lower end of the drum is flanged outwardly against the under side of the partition 5) and soldered, or otherwise suitably secured thereto. The drum 12 extends somewhat short of the top of the body I and serves to conduct heat to the body of water contained in the space between the body and drum. The chimney l5 of the lamp 3 extends into the drum with its upper end sonunvhat below the head 12%. Fresh air is supplied to the heater conuiartment ll. through suitably arranged openings 10 in its wall. The spent; gases pass off to the atmosphere through short horizontal lines 17 extending outwardly from the drum through openings 18 in the body 1 and drum, as best shown in Fig. 3. These fines are preferably arranged diametrically opposite, so that currents of air can pass freely through the device, and, in order to prevent the cross draft from entering the chimney l5 and extinguishing the flame, the said fines are disposed below the top end of the chimney.

To afford access to the water, the body 1 of the fount I is provided with an opening it) slightly above the partition 9. Arranged on the inside of the body is a hood 20 that is disposed over the drinking opening 19 and arranged with its lower end below the said opening, thereby preventing the water from flowing out of the drinking opening. This hood and opening thus constitute a drinking cup or trough that is contained in the body of the fount so that the water will be effect ivcly heated by the lamp and prevented from freezing. The stock drink the water at the bottom of the hood and the supply of water is automatically maintained at the proper level, it being understood that air cntcrs under the hood and passes up through the water to the top of the compartment 10 as the water is consumed by the stock.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, the advantages of the construction will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains. 1n operation, the device can be readily filled by removing the body from the bottom and pouring water thercinto through the opening 19, the body, of course, being first turned to a horizontal position with the drinking or filling opening uppermost. To clean out the water compartment, it is simply necessary to supply a little watcrand vigorously shake the body, and then let the water run out by turning the opening 19 to the bottom.

Since the drinking cup or trough is contained within the body of the device, the necessity of cleaning is less frequent than with those lounts having the troughs on the outside. A fount of the character referred to can be made of any desired size for large or small stock, and the freezing of the Water therein is effectively prevented.

What is claimed is:

1. A drinking fount for stock comprising a body portion having a water compartment therein and a drinking opening at one side thereof, a heating drum projecting upwardly into the water compartment, and a hood arranged within the water compartment at a point between the heating drum therein and the drinking opening and extending downwardly to a point below the level of the said opening.

2. A drinking fount for stock comprising a body portion having a substantially closed water compartment formed in the upper portion thereof and provided with a suitably arranged drinking opening, a heating drum projecting up \vardly into the said water compartment, horizontal lines connecting the walls of the body and the drum at a point below the top of the latter, and a heating lamp having its chimney discharging into the said drum above the level of the said flues.

3. A drinking fount for stock comprising a body portion having a partition extending horizontally therein and pro vided with a drinking opening above the partition, :1 heating drum supported on thepartltion and projecting upwardly into the water space formed above the partition, and a hood arranged within the body at a point between the drinking opening thereof and the heating drum, the

said hood being secured at the top and sides to the inside of the body and having its lower edge extending below the level of the bottom of the drinking opening.

4. A drinking fount for stock comprising a body portion having a partition arranged horizontally therein to form a water compartment in its upper portion, a heating drum supported on the partition and projecting upwardly into the water compartment, a bottom adapted to fit the body below the partition and detaehably secured thereto the said bottom having an upwardly extending ring thereon.

having its axis arranged in alinement with the heating drum, radially extending fines leading from the upper portion of said drum to the vertical sides of the body and serving to reinforce the drum relatively to the body, and a heating device arranged within the heating drum and seated within said ring and supported in cooperative relation with the heating drum by the detachable bottom.

5. A drinking fount for stock comprising a body having a drinking opening and an air inlet opening, a horizontal annular partition arranged in the body between the openings, a drum supported on the partition with its upper end closed, a hood disposed over the drinking opening, short fiues extending outwardly through the drum and body, a removable lamp supporting bottom having a rim and fitted into the body, a head on the body with which the rim engages, and spring clamps on the bottom for engaging the bead of the body for removably holding the bottom in place.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

PETER M. WICKSTRUM.

Witnesses B. SWANK, C. M. WIcns'rnUM. 

